CVE-2017-6160: F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In F5 BIG-IP AAM and PEM software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.1, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1, 11.4.1 to 11.5.4, a remote attacker may create maliciously crafted HTTP request to cause Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to restart and temporarily fail to process traffic. This issue is exposed on virtual servers using a Policy Enforcement profile or a Web Acceleration profile. Systems that do not have BIG-IP AAM module provisioned are not vulnerable. The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may restart and temporarily fail to process traffic. Systems that do not have BIG-IP AAM or PEM module provisioned are not vulnerable.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …

Published 2017-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.